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If that was a lifted truck, the body would have sheared off the frame and
sliced the passengers in half, messily. North American market trucks are
not built to the same collision standards as smarts or passenger sedans,
they kill or maim their occupants. This was done deliberately to increase
the profit margins on the vehicles, accompanied by political lobbying to
make it possible. You are just higher up, in a rickety shell of plastic and
barely bolted on sheet-metal, it’s just an illusion that you are safer.
I’ve seen a Ford Fusion cut a GMC Yukon in half.﻿

That lady is a total moron. She says it’s got pretensioners and
demonstrates it by pulling rapidly on the seat belt causing the belt
limiter to activate and the she talks about force limiters and demonstrates
it by gently pulling on the belt. It gives the totally wrong impression to
the people about how those two systems work. Oh, sorry, I just realized
it’s fifth gear. Their audience deserves to stay ignorant. Keep it up,
not-topgear.﻿